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Friday, September 3, 2010
The same reason we avoid serif fonts is the same reason we avoid the use of “I” in our instructional text. We often try to foster a sense of community in our instructional writing for business, encouraging the employee (the learner) to identify with the business (the teacher). Am I complaining? No way. hate Lucida Handwriting. Why not?
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Guided Instructions – The product guides you to take your first screen capture. The instruction “Press Print Screen to capture&# is clearly stated in the main menu. Last we at  Instructional Designers Community of India wanted to create an online social network for the community. What users want? Reasons. Snagit.
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
To install and use this utility, perform the following steps: Double-click the file attached with this blogpost, dcache.air , and follow the on-screen instructions to install the utility. Project cache in Adobe Captivate 5 helps you save and open projects faster. For more information on project cache in Adobe Captivate 5, see [link].
 

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Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. Instructional Designers. learning. Workplace Learning.
But what about motivating instructional designers? When I was studying Instructional Design, a college professor once told the class that we were the learner’s advocates. Instructional Design is a selfless job in many ways, because it’s not about you, it’s about them—the learners. Yet I still love this field.
My article Death of the Instructional Designer sparked off some interesting debate and provided some good points. The poll also showed that most readers believe that instructional designers do add value to content development projects. Tom Crawford makes some interesting points in Is Instructional Design Dead.
Instructional Designer Capable of performing or at least managing entire ADDIE process. Primarily responsible for translating raw content into instructional content. Instructional Systems Designer While this role is often used interchangeably with Instructional Designer, I think there should be some, albeit subtle, distinction.
A couple of month back I had shared a list of top 30 online resources for instructional designers to keep up with. Recently I came across this discussion on LinkedIn – best book for beginning instructional designers. The discussion has thrown up a great list of books for instructional designers worth sharing with our readers too.
On Friday I had the pleasure of giving the closing session in the eLearning Guild Online Forum series on Instructional Design. Tags: eLearning Instructional Design suppose presenters aren't supposed to say this, but I had so much fun with the group that had.
John Curry interviewed me for his Introduction to Instructional Design class. was one of four instructional designers that John interviewed and the only non-degreed one in the bunch. an instructional designer in the Clinical Guidance Organization for Humana Health Care Each interview is about 30 minutes long. Last night, Dr.
Amit Garg has posted a nice list of 22 essential books for beginning instructional designers. Which reminded me of an old post of mine from 2008: Essential Reading for Instructional Design. Tags: books instructional design Lots of books to read, so get to work, you! Photo credit: bookworm by Oo_Dee_oO.
Here is a great article by Jeremy Vest on things to keep in mind when doing instructional design for video. Sins of Online Video Instructional Design. More… Tags: Featured Instructional Design video A lot of training is using video and it’s becoming very easy to create and distribute. April 30, 2009.
If you know me, you’ll know my topic was right up my alley: “Instructional Design: You Do What for a Living?” asked people to introduce themselves and tell their stories – how they each got into instructional design. We all agreed that no one set out in their early days with the grand vision of becoming an instructional designer.